“Then they cuffed me and dragged me out into the street and it was only then I realised it was the armed police.

“By that point I realised it was obviously something serious.”

Raid by armed police after GMP (Image: UGC MEN)

A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: “It was like something out of a film. All of a sudden all these armed police were just everywhere. They dragged him out into the street and had him face down on the road.”

After searching his home Mr Burke said police then explained they had received reports about a gun being spotted at the property.